Kawasaki

Kawasaki is a former Japanese whisky distillery that was located in the city of the same name in the Kanagawa Prefecture. The factory was first built by Showa Shuzo Co (later Sanraku Shuzo Co) in 1947 before being converted into a malt whisky distillery in 1958. Its time functioning in this capacity was only brief however, and the company moved its malt production to Yamanashi in 1961 instead.

The distillery lay idle until 1969 when the newly merged Sanraku-Ocean Co decided to pursue in-house production of grain whisky, importing a McMillan Coffey still from Scotland and installing it at Kawasaki. It was then operational until the later 1980s when it closed again and never re-opened. With almost all Kawasaki production destined for blends, only a handful of single grain bottlings have ever been released.